During the Perennial Plant Association’s (PPA) 2025 National Symposium hosted in Des Moines, Iowa fifteen Landscape Design companies were recognized for their exceptional projects. The entries comprise eight categories based on residential, commercial, educational, temporary/seasonal designs,
and price of production. The design may be a single project or a section of a larger project. The focus must be on perennials but may include other plants. Six of the eight entry categories are defined by the wholesale cost of the project and two are for specialty garden designs.
Initiated in 1992, the Landscape Design Awards program recognizes design projects that are exemplary in use of herbaceous perennials to help create balanced and beautiful landscapes. The “after-market” applications of our growers’ products and the design, installation, and maintenance of plants in gardens and natural settings are of special interest to the Perennial Plant Association. Both experienced and novice designers were invited to participate.
Each year, judges evaluate many outstanding landscape designs and select the most excellent entries based on the effectiveness of herbaceous perennial plant material used through the implantations of new cultivars, color combinations, textures, and seasonal combinations. PPA Regional Board Member and Master of Ceremony for the 2025 Landscape Design Awards, Scott Hokunson, shared his thoughts on this year’s project submissions saying, “PPA is proud to announce the 2025 Landscape Design Award competition winners! Entries this year displayed wonderful creativity with plant combinations, problem solving, seasonal interest, and contemporary design styles. We are especially pleased with an increase in international entries this year, evidence of a growing passion for the use of perennials in landscape design!”
Once again, the Perennial Plant Association received an exceptional amount of project entries for the judging committee to evaluate, diversely spread over all entry categories. Award recipients received either an Award of Merit or Award of Excellence, which is the highest landscape design award.
This year’s recipients included:
Class I: Residential Less than $25,000
Award of Excellence: Reynolds Road Meadow, Andrew Marrs Garden Design
Class II: Residential $25,000 to $100,000
Award of Excellence: Front Yard Meadow, Indigenous Ingenuities
Award of Merit: Macalester Raingardens, Carolyn Johnson, Field Outdoor Spaces, Inc Award of Merit: Edgy Woodland Wonderland, Stefano Marinaz Landscape Architecture
Class III: Residential More than $100,000
Award of Excellence: Ardrossan Farm, Donald Pell Gardens
Award of Merit: The Mosaic, CLINTON+RIES Landscape Architects
Award of Merit: Sky Garden, Fox Whyte Landscape Architecture & Design Inc.
Class IV: Commercial Less than $25,000
Award of Merit: Green Infrastructure Garden at Hoffman Nursery, Preston Montague
Class V: Commercial $25,000 to $100,000
Award of Excellence: Herbaceous High Street, Melissa Homer / Refugia Design
Class VI: Commercial More than $100,000
Award of Excellence: Chapman Stables, CLINTON+RIES Landscape Architects Award of Merit: The Harkin Institute, Kelly D. Norris, LLC
Class VII: Public Horticulture
Award of Merit: New Hope Gardens, Radovan Hajek, US Perennials and New Hope Volunteers
Award of Merit: Chapel Meadow at Green-Wood Cemetery, LWLA
Class VIII: Temporary
Award of Excellence: DIOR Cruise 2025, Drummond Castle, Nicola Semple and Susan Begg, Semple Begg
Award of Merit: "Era of Adaptation: Chic Sustainability", Shireen Zia, CPLD EcoGardens Landscape Design, LLC
The Perennial Plant Association extends a huge congratulations to these 2025 award recipients! To learn more about the PPA Landscape Design Awards program and view more details, including photos, about each awarded project, please visit: https://perennialplant.org/page/2025LDAWINNERS
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The Perennial Plant Association is a trade association composed of growers, retailers, landscape designers and contractors, educators, and others that are professionally involved in the herbaceous perennial industry. With a mission to connect professionals, provide education and promote perennial plants, the association has served the horticultural industry since 1984.
For more information visit www.perennialplant.org.